Bonnie Raitt
Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
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The Blues and Jaz Festival - What Was She Like as a Person?
i met her in her sixties, or late sixties. She had recovered from a stroke, and she was mino. Had been in a wheel chair for a while, but was walking slowly. And she was only going to do gospel music afterh stop. You know, the whole blues industry went downhill when there was the depression and the second world war. They needed the vinal for other things, and the black music industry was the one that took the hit. So she really was settled on s plan in churchand she played organ and piano in the church and led the choir. i asked her about jesus, and asked her about racism and jim crow. It
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